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Whilst many Somali people associate FGM with Sharia, Ali alongside doctors and a growing number of religious leaders believe it to be a cultural phenomenon, which can be altered. [2] Ali, as well as her three sisters, are survivors of FGM. [2] In 2020, Ubah Ali was part of the BBC’s list of the 100 most influential women in the world. [7] [8]
This is a list of notable Somalis from Somalia, Somaliland, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia as well as the Somali diaspora This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The clan groupings of the Somali people are important social units, and clan membership plays a central part in Somali culture and politics. Clans are patrilineal and are often divided into sub-clans, sometimes with many sub-divisions. Somali society is traditionally ethnically endogamous. Women who marry are expected to join their husband's ...
Pages in category "Women in Somaliland" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. W. Women in Somalia
The IIDA Women's Development Organisation NGO was founded in Mogadishu on 25 May 1991 by a group of Somali women activists led by the sisters Halima and Starlin Arush. [1] Halima Arush was a former education inspector whose husband had been killed during the civil war in Somalia. The organisation's aim was to create an interface organization ...
In 2013 two of SWDC's other lawyers were killed in an attack on Mogadishu's courthouse in which 27 other people died and 60 were wounded. [4] Her organisation established the Ceebla Crisis Line 5555. [5] The line offers support in both Somali and English to those women who are involved with violence and abuse. [5]
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Somalian This category exists only as a container for other categories of Somalian women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Government ministers of Somaliland. It includes Government ministers of Somaliland that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.